Scene + Heard: Lindsey Vonn headlines Buck Hill fundraiser

Famous skier Lindsey Vonn returned to Minnesota to host a fundraising dinner for the newly formed Buck Hill Foundation.

Vonn, an Olympic gold medalist, learned to ski at the Burnsville ski area under the tutelage of Erich Sailer. The head coach and program director of the Buck Hill Ski Racing Club has created a program that has produced some of the world’s most talented skiers.

Two University of Oklahoma students have voluntarily withdrawn from the school after one appeared in a video posted on social media wearing black face paint and using a racial epithet, the university's president said Monday.

North Dakota's Republican-led Legislature reopened the abortion debate Monday following a six-year pause despite critics saying the state is setting itself up for another round of expensive legal fights over legislation they describe as misleading and unconstitutional.

For more than two decades, Houston has had competing parades on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with organizers lobbing allegations of favoritism and conspiracy at each other and at city officials as the groups battled over permits and preferred starting times.